Fonds F1550 - Queen's University. Glaxo Smith Kline Clinical Education Centre fonds

Established in 1972, originally as the Clinical Learning Cenre, this centre teaches health-care students clinical skills in a simulated clinical environment. Traditionally, these skills, including interviewing and making physical and psycho-social assessments, were taught solely at the bedside of actual patients. The Centre brings in volunteer "patients" from the community to participate in these sessions, so students can learn in a more manageable environment and without inconveniencing real patients. The Centre is used mainly by undergraduate medical, nursing, and rehabilitation-therapy students and by graduate medical students. It is funded primarily by the company Glaxo Smith Kline, but is administered in part, by the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the School of Nursing. Its director reports to the Dean of Health Sciences. It also has a senior advisory committee, made up of health sciences teachers, and a student advisory committee. Adaptedd from the entry found in the "Queen's Encyclopedia" http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia